Statistics Quotes

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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

You see, but you do not observe.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

Whenever you can, count.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Statistics are for losers.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.